Episode 548: Vampire Crawlers, Video Game Movie News
Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel
Ben Vernel
4.8 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has made hundreds of millions at the box office ($30 of which is thanks to Tommy) and so it's no surprise that a bunch of other video game adaptations are on the horizon. This week, we're digging into the casting news for Elden Ring and the announcement that adaptations of Call of Duty and Battlefield are being worked on. We're also reviewing Vampire Crawlers, the awesome new card-based spin-off of Vampire Survivors, and Tommy's house has been thrown into turmoil thanks to Tomodatchi Life!
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| 0:00.0 | The Super Mario Galaxy movie is one of the titans of modern cinema. |
| 0:05.7 | And soon it's going to be joined on the silver screen by such video game adaptations |
| 0:10.5 | as Eldon Ring, Call of Duty and Battlefield. |
| 0:14.7 | We're going to be talking about all of this video game adaptation news, plus reviewing |
| 0:20.0 | the vampire survivors spin-off vampire crawlers and Tomadachi life has thrown my household into chaos all of that and more on today's filthy casuals I'm I'm Good morning video games. Welcome to Filthy Casuals, a podcast about video games, hosted by two very kind and extremely knowledgeable boys. |
| 0:54.7 | Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 0:56.3 | My name is Tommy Daslo and with me as always. |
| 1:00.0 | Benvenel here, Tommy. |
| 1:01.7 | And what a massive week it's been in video games. |
| 1:05.4 | Whoa. |
| 1:05.8 | So many things have happened that it's impossible to talk about them. |
| 1:10.5 | Okay. |
| 1:27.9 | Should we just wrap it up here? Yeah, I think so. Very short episode this week. Yep, yep, yep. We're back at your house. Yes. We're really doing a lot of hopping between online and IRL. And I've got to say, it's sort of a little bit discombobulating to be, to be back in the room after a period of being online, because being online, I don't find that weird now. Because I'm, you know, I'm sort of just |
| 1:32.6 | sitting in front of the computer. Something that happens quite a lot, even if I'm not doing the |
| 1:37.3 | podcast. Whereas this, the only reason I ever sit inside your house is to do this. Yes, that's right. |
| 1:44.3 | That's right. And yeah, I rarely sit in your house is to do this. Yes, that's right. That's right. |
| 1:44.9 | And, yeah, I rarely sit in front of my computer facing away. |
| 1:49.6 | At a sort of three-quarter angle. |
| 1:51.6 | Yeah, three-quarter angle, sort of fake, you know, treating it like there's an audience there. |
| 1:57.7 | But this is, I mean, where I'm sitting, this is a nice angle in this room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I quite like it. If I was you, I would sort of do this more often. Okay. Because you sort of get, I'm gazing upon your bookshelf. Yes. So sort of, when we do this at your house, I get the benefit of being slightly distracted by looking at all the, all the beautiful books on your shelf and you know |
| 2:19.4 | people tend to sit in a chair in their house and they might read through the books |
| 2:24.1 | that are in the bookshelf yes but how often do you just gaze upon the shelf itself and go |
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